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Are you passionate about building thriving and inclusive communities? Do you want to make a positive impact on the lives of people around you? Look no further than "Community Development Frameworks: Building Thriving and Inclusive Communities." This comprehensive guide is specifically crafted for individuals actively involved in community development and planning, regardless of their level of experience. Whether you are a beginner or an expert in leading groups, this book offers practical insights and frameworks that can be readily applied to your own community development projects. The ...

When numbers and neighborhood stories meet, something powerful wakes up. Parish Stories: Data-to-Story Labs is a field guide for cultural creatives who want to work with data without losing their voice, their humor, or their community in the process. This book was built in and for places like New Orleans—and for every parish, county, borough, and neighborhood that knows it is more than a statistic. It treats “cultural creative” broadly: not just artists and writers, but anyone who carries culture into their work and connects it back to the people they serve—teaching artists and ...

MASTER THE FRAME Every situation is a game. See it. Read it. Win it. This pocket book is a survival kit for real rooms—HR traps, budget ambushes, grant boards, ER intake, hire–fire meetings, and “we just want to talk” surprises. When the door closes, this is the playbook you wish was in your pocket. What you get inside—fast, no fluff: Live drops: You’re thrown into the scene with only what a real person gets—voices, posture, timing, and pressure. Power Map: Who’s performing “nice,” who holds the lever, and who writes the record that sticks. Motive Read: What each player ...

YOU DIDN’T BUY THIS BOOK. YOU PICKED UP A NODE. In New Orleans, a “normal” lunch turns into an intake line—forms, name tags, and rules that start acting like they’ve always been true. When the room tries to file people into permanent categories, Mara does the only thing that works: she makes reality messy again. Today. Right now. This weather. This shift. No forever-words. But the storm doesn’t stop at the door. A service entrance peels open into the City of Echoing Pages—a metropolis built from book spines, ink-lamps, and sentences that rearrange themselves when you blink. ...

You didn’t pick up a book. You picked up a Node—a pocket doorway into a set of worlds where stories don’t describe reality. They shape it. In Sector Folio-7, a catastrophic cascade has begun. Worlds are bleeding into each other, rules are breaking, and a city built from living pages is starting to collapse from the inside. Streets repeat out of order. People forget who they are mid-sentence. And “plot holes”—literal voids—open in the ground and swallow entire blocks. Mara Keene is a Scriptor tasked with keeping this place intact. She enters the City of Echoing Pages to recover...

What if fate came with a settings menu… and you’ve never checked what’s turned on by default? Subscribe to Fate drops you into the Great Game—a universe where gods argue over neural nets, lunar engineers discover their survival is a televised challenge, economies run on reputation, and a tiny gray “smudge” can derail a perfectly calibrated season of conflict. Inside this pocket-sized book you’ll find: An All-Father who wakes up to discover mortals have patched the code of creation. Moon colonists fighting for water, oxygen, and the right to be more than someone else’s ...

Open Anywhere: Be the Player — Pocket Worlds for Busy Days is a book for people with too much life and not enough day. Part story, part sly nudge, it treats everyday reality like the Great Game—not a competition, but a living system that reacts when you do. Open to any page and you’ll drop into a tiny “pocket world”: a short scene, a sharp idea, and a way to press on your world so it presses back in a better shape. This isn’t a manual or a pep talk. It’s the opposite of homework. You’ll find the hidden axis in a stubborn conversation by moving a chair six inches. You’ll ...

Toad’s Terrible, No-Good, Very Excellent Adventure (How Not to Quest Properly) What happens when an imp with the self-preservation instincts of a sock in a tornado, a wizard who can’t stop turning things into chickens, a ghost rabbit with a talent for bad decisions, and a knight-turned-frog who just wants some peace get tangled in a fate-woven disaster? Well… this. Toad, an imp with a talent for absolutely the wrong kind of mischief, has been "banished" (read: promoted) to the Mortal Realm. Osric, a wizard desperately trying to master magic without creating more poultry, has somehow ...

Make your work easier to find—and harder to erase. Algorithms may open doors, but people decide what matters. Navigating an AI-Driven World is a practical guide for culture-makers, technologists, nonprofits, and healthcare teams who want their work to travel farther without losing the heart of it. This book bridges traditional craft with modern tools so your stories, services, and programs stay clear, credited, and community-led. You’ll learn simple ways to choose what stays private, what you preview, what you invite others to build on, and what you release as the official version. With...

You’re not just reading—you’re stepping through. On the train with a lukewarm coffee. In a hallway outside a meeting that’s already running late. At the sink while the group chat invents a new crisis. Players and Powers: Pocket Worlds in Play is the kind of book you crack open mid-day and the room tilts—just enough for the next move to appear. Think of each page as a small doorway: you touch the line, and a pocket world opens. In one, the conversation starts differently and people relax. In another, the schedule slides twenty minutes and the whole evening lands softer. Somewhere ...

Dear Diary, It Got Weird Again The Works of Mr. Joe This isn’t a diary. It’s a legacy stitched from the strange, the sincere, and the sentences that refused to stay quiet. Inside are fragments that became foundations—moments of insight, humor, heartbreak, and clarity gathered over years and held together by a single thread: the need to make meaning in a world that doesn’t always offer it freely. This collection speaks to those who feel everything a little too deeply, think a little too sideways, and laugh in the middle of their most serious questions. It’s for anyone who’s ever ...

Our enigmatic protagonist, Joseph Crown, is a renowned Hypno Dom and kink lifestyle expert with a reputation for privacy and secrecy. But when he meets John Wager, his carefully guarded identity is thrown into chaos. John offers him a solution to his problem - licensing his identity and business along with a wager to create a successful new life. But as Crown delves deeper into this new world, he discovers a dark side - THE ARCHITECT OF BEHAVIORS. Now, his life and anyone he comes into contact with are becoming part of the Great Game, and he must play to win.

Dive deep into the mesmerizing rhythms of New Orleans in Week 2 of this poetic journey. Let the city's tales of hope, revelations, introspections, enchantments, and wisdom sweep you away, as you traverse through the intricate dance of past, present, and future. In the heart of the Crescent City, where stories whisper from every corner and time lingers like an age-old melody, uncover a rich tapestry of poems set against its vibrant history, resilient spirit, and mystical traditions. From the hopeful hues of dawn to the profound depths of night, each day's narrative is an evocative ...

Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey toward mastering the art of conflict resolution and effective communication? "Navigating Life's Conflicts: Strategies for Effective De-Escalation and Communication" invites you to step into the heart of true-to-life scenarios where tensions rise, emotions flare, and understanding seems out of reach. In this immersive and scenario-driven approach, you'll not only learn invaluable conflict resolution skills, but you'll also apply them in these true-to-life situations, challenging yourself to navigate the complexities of human interaction. ...

Step into a realm where the whisper of morning revelations unveils the path to inner wisdom, and the vibrant life of New Orleans sets the stage for a journey of self-discovery and communal understanding. "67 Days of NOLA Poetic Exploration Between Here And There" is not just a book of poetry; it's a soulful expedition across the landscapes of time, culture, and the mysteries of the human spirit. Week 7 - "The Experimental Certainty of Exploration Through Social Distance" - challenges readers to traverse the intellectual and emotional terrains of isolation, where the act of distancing ...

POCKET UNIVERSE ADVENTURES: THE GALLEY In 1802, Tommy Bracken cooks below deck on the Persephone, where heat, salt, and routine are the only things keeping men human. Then the crew stops asking for seconds. A wreck drifts alongside. And Tommy realizes something out there isn’t just hungry. It’s watching. He survives the voyage, but the world doesn’t go back to normal. On shore, Tommy and Wallace build a place with a simple promise: a room where people eat like they matter. The Galley becomes a refuge, then a rumor, then a magnet—drawing in the bruised and brilliant, the cautious and...

This Kindle document is the culmination of a three month action research (AR) project. It was undertaken with the purpose of getting the unheard voice heard in a writing and dialogue group in the Northeast. This work describes the transformation of the group in that three month time span under which the study took place. AR utilizes a four cycle process of discovery, measurable action, reflection, and action, in order to strategically work towards a goal with data constantly informing decisions. It is these qualities of AR that make it ideal for social justice and educational equity work. ...

Between Here And There: Week 1 - The Experimental Certainty of Exploration Through Social Distance Dive deep into the vibrant heartbeat of New Orleans with a poetic journey that transcends time and space. Over 67 days, experience the magic, mystery, poetic inquiry, and musicality of NOLA, as each day unfolds with a series of poems capturing the essence of morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. In this first week, delve into the "Experimental Certainty of Exploration Through Social Distance." As the world finds itself distanced, NOLA's spirit remains undimmed, her stories waiting to ...

Dive heart-first into the intoxicating, ethereal streets of New Orleans with "67 Days of NOLA Poetic Exploration Between Here And There". We welcome you to Week 6 - a curated exploration titled "The Experimental Certainty of Exploration Through Social Distance." Navigate through a meticulously crafted journey that melds poetic inquiry with the rhythmic heartbeats of a city rich in layered tales and spirited melodies. Explore "The Dance of Dualities" as you traverse the path between the seen and the unseen, the spoken and the silent, the tangible and the ephemeral. Engage in an intimate ...

Slip into the extraordinary world of Mr. Joe, where words transcend the page, weaving together memories, dreams, and the relentless pursuit of understanding life’s deepest mysteries. This book is more than just a collection of stories; it’s a journey through time, identity, and the very essence of what it means to be human. With a blend of flash fiction, lyric essays, character sketches, and monologues, Joseph Santiago explores the intricate dance between reality and imagination, leaving readers with a sense of connection that resonates long after the last page is turned. Whether ...